Telecommunications Act 1984

The M1Pipe-lines Act 1962U.K.

Marginal Citations

41U.K.In section 40 of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 (avoidance of interference with telegraphic lines etc.)—

(a)in subsection (1), for the words from “telegraphic line” to “such line” there shall be substituted the words “ telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system or with the service provided by any such system ”; and

(b)for subsections (2) and (3) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

(2)Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code (which provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the alteration of telecommunication apparatus) shall apply, for the purposes of works in pursuance of a compulsory rights order, to the person authorised to execute those works..